Upper esophageal sphincter impedance as a marker of sphincter opening diameter

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Omari, Taher I ^a,b   Ferris, Lara ^a   Dejaeger, Eddy ^c   Tack, Jan ^d   Vanbeckevoort, Dirk ^c   Rommel, Nathalie ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Deglutition disorders; Diagnosis; Electric impedance; Manometry; Radiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED IMPEDANCE MANOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LIQUID; MALE; MANOMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SWALLOWING; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER, LOWER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860534812     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00473.2011     Document Type: Article

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